Your notion that only extremist candidates are elected is absurd and has no correlation in recent electorial results.
Why in California was the extremist Burton turned away in favor of the moderate Davis. Clinton is also a famous centrist moderate (who won his last election by a landslide).
Your Chomsky-esque comments about some greater conspiracy of marginalization is absurd.
You have only gained moderation on this because the average slashdotter knows even less about political theory and practice than yourself.
If DNA is considered the source code of an individual's genetic makeup, then sooner of later the government must determine some sort of personal "source code license" for DNA.
The alternative is a true big-brother police state, wherein you are tracked, measured, and sampled at unknown intervals.
Frankly, I like a Microsoft-like licensing scheme for my own DNA.
If you knowingly divert email to another address, anything they dig out of that email on the other end is fair game.
Where was it written that anyone had the right to create a defacto domain for spam-guarding? Once again, the ridiculous entitlement mentality of slashdotters rears its ugly head.
Relly, the unix model has its advantages, but if unix-heads reinvented the human body, they would probably find some advantage in allowing (and hence, requiring) someone to control each individual cell in the body. Everything is a cell! would be the advertising slogan.
My wife used to have an old tower-case Mac which simply would not give you access without going down to your local firehouse and getting the jaws of life.
The other day I took a hammer to the thing for shits and giggles and could barely get the case to open.
Frankly, if your product isn't selling, its unlikely that changing some aspect of its licensing is going to make much of a difference. Perhaps if you told us more about the product, you would get some more useful advice. Open sourcing will not fix a unwanted or poorly marketed product.
Apple users are unable to obtain a professional-quality keyboard or mouse from Apple.
Up until recently, Apple tower cabinets were nearly impossible to open without applying undue force.
Why can't this company produce peripherals that are intelligently designed and ergonomically suitable while still being pretty? Don't people at Apple get RSI?
I actually enjoyed Phantom Menace. I understand I was in the minority, but I predicted the presence of an annoying character and routed around it in real-time.
No, you're severely out-of-touch with the 90% of the world that isn't in IT.
The original poster was referring to a techie position, so that set the context of the thread.
Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% for capitalism. But too often people confuse being dealt a lucky hand with skill at playing cards.No, the poster wasn't lucky, he just studied the right thing in college.
It's just that there are tons of people in less-rewarding fields with a lot more to worry about than the average 24-year-old who put in 55 or more hours per week
But they aren't the slashdot audience, and I highly doubt they lurk here. Slashdot is populated, largely, by techie folks, who, if they are out of school, likely make very good salaries. The poster's gripes were valid, and the audience and forum appropriate. I'm sorry that the numbers bother you, but its all relative.
If you're 24 and making nearly $40k/year you have very very little to complain about.
Most college grads hired into IT are now clearing $60k on their first job, with Silicon Valley companies pushing large cash bonuses to the best, which can easily push their first year compensation near $100k.
To be blunt, you seem to be severely out of touch with regards to coder salaries. If you are working in Boston as a coder for $55k then you are getting chumped.
Lets be realistic here - Invisible Worlds does not have the market power to create a de facto standard, and the W3 is likely to ignore it - they're busy trying to get SOAP to do pretty much the same thing.
This has zilch chance of going anywhere. The W3 couldn't even agree on HTTP-NG - what makes you think they would even waste their time with this?
As it stands, with SOAP and other XML-based protocols coming down the line, there is actually very little real need for BXXP. There is little demand for mutliplexing mutliple channels over one TCP connection...and it looks like that is all this protocol really offers.
If you look at the open directory and look at yahoo's directory, you will see an incredible disparity in the average quality of the organization and depth.
The bottom line, some of the volunteers for the open directory know what they're doing in terms of hierarchically organizing data, but many don't.
This is why you will not find pervasive organizational practices and structures throughtout the open directory, and this is why ulimately most of it is a mess of broken links on untended pages.
To succeed with an organizational scheme you need rules that are applied universally (for example, each category should/shouldn't make reference to geographical data, based on X,Y, etc.).
The open directory model is akin to asking visitors to the library of congress to design its subject hierarchy.
Every day I see a new "doubting Thomas" straw man discuission started up here - Is linux secure? Is linux trustable? Is linux stable? Is linux development too political?
Come on folks, this is really cheap. Mostly these topics are completely ridiculous attempts to fish for advocacy, or simply ridiculously narcissistic.
In recent years, most of us are writing desktop apps for windowing systems.
Soon most of us will be writing apps/tools/data for the web. Different rules. My own experience with a large web site company is that C++ is a relic of the last great era of "large programming". We have the one true platform, now we're all application writers.
There is no international law concerning the sale of Nazi momentos.
On the other hand, there is international law covering copyrighted materials, and both the US and Canada are signatory parties to this legislation. This is why Canadian officials complied - they are simply complying with legislation they consented to previously.
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Why in California was the extremist Burton turned away in favor of the moderate Davis. Clinton is also a famous centrist moderate (who won his last election by a landslide).
Your Chomsky-esque comments about some greater conspiracy of marginalization is absurd.
You have only gained moderation on this because the average slashdotter knows even less about political theory and practice than yourself.
The alternative is a true big-brother police state, wherein you are tracked, measured, and sampled at unknown intervals.
Frankly, I like a Microsoft-like licensing scheme for my own DNA.
Where was it written that anyone had the right to create a defacto domain for spam-guarding? Once again, the ridiculous entitlement mentality of slashdotters rears its ugly head.
They're going ahead with it. Save your comments for IPv7.
The other day I took a hammer to the thing for shits and giggles and could barely get the case to open.
Is this the end of [the net, government, taxes, civilization, the universe]?????
Slashdot is turning into a luddite chicken-little mental-masturbation party.
Frankly, if your product isn't selling, its unlikely that changing some aspect of its licensing is going to make much of a difference. Perhaps if you told us more about the product, you would get some more useful advice. Open sourcing will not fix a unwanted or poorly marketed product.
Up until recently, Apple tower cabinets were nearly impossible to open without applying undue force.
Why can't this company produce peripherals that are intelligently designed and ergonomically suitable while still being pretty? Don't people at Apple get RSI?
I actually enjoyed Phantom Menace. I understand I was in the minority, but I predicted the presence of an annoying character and routed around it in real-time.
The original poster was referring to a techie position, so that set the context of the thread.
Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% for capitalism. But too often people confuse being dealt a lucky hand with skill at playing cards.No, the poster wasn't lucky, he just studied the right thing in college.
It's just that there are tons of people in less-rewarding fields with a lot more to worry about than the average 24-year-old who put in 55 or more hours per week
But they aren't the slashdot audience, and I highly doubt they lurk here. Slashdot is populated, largely, by techie folks, who, if they are out of school, likely make very good salaries. The poster's gripes were valid, and the audience and forum appropriate. I'm sorry that the numbers bother you, but its all relative.
Most college grads hired into IT are now clearing $60k on their first job, with Silicon Valley companies pushing large cash bonuses to the best, which can easily push their first year compensation near $100k.
To be blunt, you seem to be severely out of touch with regards to coder salaries. If you are working in Boston as a coder for $55k then you are getting chumped.
DT has its eyes on the US market, and Sprint is going to be their way in if MCI is blocked.
In this case, no, not even close.
The W3 has shelved HTTP-NG, and is instead focusing on SOAP/XML transport standards. They would likely ignore BXXP without a second thought.
On their own, Invisible Worlds has zilch chance of making this a de facto standard.
Lets be realistic here - Invisible Worlds does not have the market power to create a de facto standard, and the W3 is likely to ignore it - they're busy trying to get SOAP to do pretty much the same thing.
As it stands, with SOAP and other XML-based protocols coming down the line, there is actually very little real need for BXXP. There is little demand for mutliplexing mutliple channels over one TCP connection...and it looks like that is all this protocol really offers.
The bottom line, some of the volunteers for the open directory know what they're doing in terms of hierarchically organizing data, but many don't.
This is why you will not find pervasive organizational practices and structures throughtout the open directory, and this is why ulimately most of it is a mess of broken links on untended pages.
To succeed with an organizational scheme you need rules that are applied universally (for example, each category should/shouldn't make reference to geographical data, based on X,Y, etc.).
The open directory model is akin to asking visitors to the library of congress to design its subject hierarchy.
What else are they supposed to be out for?
Come on folks, this is really cheap. Mostly these topics are completely ridiculous attempts to fish for advocacy, or simply ridiculously narcissistic.
As it stands, any Windows seem to be already split between VB and C/C++. Are any of them going to swithch?
Soon most of us will be writing apps/tools/data for the web. Different rules. My own experience with a large web site company is that C++ is a relic of the last great era of "large programming". We have the one true platform, now we're all application writers.
Nice try, troll.
On the other hand, there is international law covering copyrighted materials, and both the US and Canada are signatory parties to this legislation. This is why Canadian officials complied - they are simply complying with legislation they consented to previously.